I will say that it is likely that Scott lives relatively near to the ocean since I recall him being in Maryland.
His excessive Al corrosion is probably a result of the higher concentration of sea salt in the air in his area. Sea salt (specifically the Cl) causes increased corrosion of Al and it’s alloys. This is why airports don’t use rock salt (NaCl) for deicing surfaces as the Cl in salt would turn jets into flying corrosion nightmares.
One additional factor for some tags could be that they are made from an less resistant alloy or that thinner tags are made from rolled aluminum. The rolling process would increase the amount of strain in the metal and increase the corrosion rate.
Galvanic corrosion is generally limited to two pieces of metal that are in direct electrical contact through a wire. Contact through solution is not sufficient to induce galvanic corrosion and is why in plumbing situations often an insulating buffer between dissimilar metals is good practice.
My flavor queen grafted little over a week ago,now all( on peach, on nect, on plum, on red leaf plum) are pushing leaf. Same day, I also grafted other few varieties, none are pushing leaf yet. Also, I grafted two golden dust peach, all two golden dust peach are pushing leaf and other peaches that were grafted the same day, none are show sign of take. I start to think it is not graft techniques, it is that some varieties are easier to take than others
I suspect that it is more related to the scionwood than the variety itself. I just grafted some plums which were pushing leaves in the bag before I even took them out of the fridge
But, you will likely see a difference in take rate. I had one peach last year where I went 0 for 6, without so much as a swollen bud. I think I got takes on everything else (or at least apparent takes which fizzled out), so it makes me think that the wood was probably dead when I grafted it.
The wind rarely comes from the east here, its either west or north. So, there is never any salt in the air. Even when the wind is from the east you can’t smell any salt, its 50 miles to the ocean.
I grafted some plums last year that were pushing leaf. Four out of seven took. I covered them with tinfoil after taping so the buds wouldn’t grow so fast.
My sweetheart cherry top work is doing well. You can see in the background the other branches that were stripped by deer. I can not believe the deer did not eat the leaves on the sweetheart cherry.
I added this graft pic just because of the interesting contrast in leaf color. It’s Honey Lite nectarine grafted onto spice zee. By the end of the summer the spice zee leaves will be dark green but great contrast during early season.
I grafted a lot of Korean giant this spring and almost all of it is flowering early. I am removing the blooms. Can I expect these to grow to any length or will they just leaf out and remain small?
It might depend on what you have grafted it on, I top worked a large pear last summer and put a couple of KG scions on it. They branched several times and grew about four feet long.
Korean Giant do well on Kieffer since Kieffer is a hybrid. I use Kieffer as an interstem with certain callery pears. KG will do OK on other callery without an interstem.
I was doing a bunch of apples. I think that one was Canadian Strawberry. I have a patch of bud 9 rootstock that’s a grid of 4 plants wide by 6 plants long, with 4 feet between each tree. So 24 trees.
